Topic: Question About Cylinder Spigot O Ring

[Luckystrike]

 

 Well, I realized when put my engine together over a year ago that I forgot to put the cylinder spigot o rings on. Im contemplating pulling it apart again. Could someone tell me how detrimental these o rings are to the function of the bike? I know its a stuoid question but id like to get the pros advice on this one.

Thanks

[bryanj]

They were put there to stop oil "wicking" up the liner/ alloy cylinder joit as a lot of the early castings were porous, if its been a year and it don't leak don't sweat it till you have to pull it for some other reason

[bjbuchanan]

Bryanj I think you misread. He has a smaller Honda, don't they use rubber for the intake manifolds?

If you have a crummy idle and idle hang then I would say you need the orings. If you haven't had any issues after a year leave it be until you have to do something else around there. if I am interpreting it correctly

[bryanj]

Cylinder spigot to me has nothing to do with intakes its the bit of liner that sits in the crankcase

[Big Jay]

It is no problem to leave those out. There are none in all the bigbores people do.

[bjbuchanan]

Suppose I'm wrong then, but no worries, like they said the engine will be fine

[Luckystrike]

Thanks for all tge advice guys. My bike has been sitting while being worked on for a year. I started running it 4 months ago. I had some oil leaks. Turned out that my cam cover gasket was pinched and it broke. I also had a puck come lose. Oil began to leak from the number 2 exhaust. I think it was due to the puck. Later on I realized that some time ago, I forgot the spigot o rings. By the way my bike is a 500.